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Horizontal Abduction-Is More Always Better?
All pitchers have heard certain mechanical cues and common phrases used by teammates and coaches everywhere. Along with hip/shoulder separation, “scap loading” is one of those phrases. Scap loading is a phrase originally coined by Paul Nyman and refers to the...
Eccentric Training: Specific Methods Determine Adaptations, Part 1
Every sport relies on the ability to abruptly decelerate. The specific context of that deceleration may differ a bit, but it is present in every sport. If you want to throw gas, jump high, or juke someone out of their shoes, you have to be able to stop suddenly. This...
Upper Body Plyometrics for Throwing Velocity
Strength is an extremely important general quality for athletes of all levels to develop and maintain. Strength raises the athlete’s maximal force producing capabilities which underly everything the athlete does in sport. However, at a certain point, strength training...
What Can Sprinting Teach Us About High Velocity Throwing? Part 3
Thanks for following along for this three-part series. Rather than cramming all of this information into one 5000-word article I figured it was better to split it up into manageable chunks. This is the last piece of this series and will cover how programming from...
Velo Horseshoes: A Submaximal Method to Improve Throwing Velocity
Athletes who want to be the best often put a ton of pressure on themselves, are extremely invested in their training, know their PRs, especially on relevant KPIs, and this can get in the way of “free and easy” performances where the athletes enter flow state and...
What Can Sprinting Teach Us About High Velocity Throwing? Part 2
In Part 1 of this article series we discussed a few elements of sprinting that can help us understand high quality movement on a deeper level and allow us to examine high velocity throwing through a different lens. In Part 2 we'll continue that discussion. Proximal to...
What Can Sprinting Teach Us About High Velocity Throwing? Part 1
Sprinting is a foundational movement in which athletes in all sports should be proficient. This doesn’t mean that all athletes should train like 100m sprinters, but if you look like a baby deer when you sprint, it’s likely a symptom of poor general movement...
A Science Based Model For Deloading and Reloading Throwing
With COVID-19 delaying and cancelling many baseball seasons, pitchers are finding themselves in limbo. Do they continue to throw as if the season is happening next week? Do they shut down? Do they treat it like the offseason? A deload can work well in this situation...
Applying Concepts of Shock Training to Pitching: Part 1, The Weight Room
To throw at elite velocities, pitchers must be able to produce a lot of force in a short amount of time. Strength plays an important role in this, but when trying to improve rate of force development and throwing velocity, increasing maximum strength alone is not...
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Horizontal Abduction-Is More Always Better?
All pitchers have heard certain mechanical cues and common phrases used by teammates and coaches everywhere. Along with hip/shoulder separation, “scap loading” is one of those phrases. Scap loading is a phrase originally coined by Paul Nyman and refers to the...